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This adapter is specially designed to attach to the receivers in your Ram's factory, underbed 5th-wheel towing prep package. The base then provides the attachment point for your Curt 5th-wheel slider or roller.
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Today, we're going to take a look at the Curt Adapter Rails for the Curt 5th Wheel Slider Hitches to the Ram factory towing truck package. Now this is a custom fit part that is designed to fit the 2014 and newer Dodge Ram and Ram 2500 with the 6' bed and the factory rail kit, and also the 2013 and newer Dodge Ram and Ram 3500 with the 6' bed and the factory rail kit. Now on any custom fit part, I always like to recommend to go to our website. Use our fit guide. Put in your year and model vehicle, and it will show you if this will work for your application. This custom base is specifically designed to attach to the receivers in your Ram factory installed under bed 5th wheel towing prep package. The base is designed to work with Curt slider hitches like Part Number C16536, C16521, and C16546.
All those, we do sell separately on our website. Basically, the tabs on those slider hitches will drop right into the openings right here into this adapter. Then once they drop in, they come with these included pins and clips that will hold them into place. Now this adapter, you do want to be aware of that when you do drop your hitch onto here, that it will add this height here, so it adds about an additional 1 1/2" of height compared to your industry standard rails. It does use the quarter turn anchoring system for quick installation and removal. I'll show you how that works.
You can see these tabs right here. Basically, what you want to do is just pop your pin and clip off. They are held into place. You just rotate this out 90 degrees, and you'll notice the tab will move. You'll do the same back here, and you'll do the same over there.
With them all open, then you'll drop it into the pucks or the receiver openings that are in your truck bed. Once they drop into there, you just rotate these back to 90 degrees, put the pin and clips in so it holds the handles into place, and then it will be all locked in, and you're all ready to go, just like that. Again, you'll do the same on that side. Now the finish on this is a nice, durable, carbide, black powder coat finish. The thing I do want to mention, also, is that when you do install this, you want to be aware that on the Ram factory prep package, the rear mounting tabs are larger than the front mounting tabs. You want to make sure that the larger, rear mounting tabs will be at the rear of the vehicle, and the smaller tabs are at the front of the vehicle.
I had mentioned it does come with the four pins and clips for holding your hitch into place, and it comes with a nice set of detailed instructions on how to install this. Again, the application, this is for Ram trucks with the factory installed under bed towing prep package. The weight capacity on this adapter is 24,000 pounds. That should do it for the review on the Curt Adapter Rails for the Curt 5th Wheel Slider Hitches to the Ram factory truck towing prep package.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (154 Customer Reviews)
This adapter is specially designed to attach to the receivers in your Ram's factory, underbed 5th-wheel towing prep package. The base then provides the attachment point for your Curt 5th-wheel slider or roller.The product itself is great. The reason for the 3-star rating is that the first shipment came in beat up boxes and without all of the parts (and some of the parts were already put together - can anyone say used?). The Customer Service rep was great and escalated when asked. The manufacturer quickly sent new parts, however, they use UPS who beat the boxes up so badly that the post office returned them before they even got to us. This caused us to miss the pick up date for our camper. After I called again, they sent a new shipment, however, it also didn’t make the rescheduled time for us to pick up our camper so we had to borrow someone’s truck to pick it up. Once the parts finally showed up, the shopping boxes were again beat up and all of the parts were clanking together. Thankfully the parts we needed were usable. etrailer needs to work with the manufacturer on securing the boxes better and should find someone other than UPS to deliver them.
Exactly what I ordered and works perfect! Here is the A16 Curt attached in the photos. Easy and quick installation into the RAM puck system.
Curt A20 5th Wheel Hitch Fifth Wheel Hitch 2018 Ram 2500 This was not easy choice to make as I tend to try top save money. But with my truck and the puck system this has been an excellent purchase. The removable pin let's me pull the top of the hitch off while leaving the rest in the truck. This allows me to store it in front of the adapter rails. Then my roll up bed cover clears the top while the rest is still mounted. Dry, secure out of site out of mind while shopping or parked at RV park overnight. The slider allows the extra clearance to give you peace of mind you will not damage your truck while backing into tight spaces on a serious angle. Then of course the top comes off with that pin making the entire thing lighter to remove when taking the entire assembly out of the truck. IT is manageable but still better to use the tractor bucket or hoist as it is heavy duty. No issues and very happy with this purchase and the continued great service from etrailer! I pulled a 34 ft 5th wheel 1800 miles at average of 75mph. Did not even know the trailer was back there when the wind was not blowing. Thanks again for helping me put this package together and having the lowest price while doing it!
This slider solves all the problems with towing a fifth wheel with short bed pickups.
Easiest item I have ever installed on my truck. 4 bolts to set it up then dropped the entire assembly into the Ramming bed puck system. Plan to haul our 5th wheel rv with this. The slider will help if we get into tight area at the rv park. Simly to use. Love it
Mac - 12/22/2017Straightforward setup. I’d recommend deep sockets for torquing the bolts down. Solid piece of equipment.
Kevin - 09/03/2021I bought a 5th Wheel camper on May 13th. On the 14 I started shopping for a 5th Wheel Hitch. I landed on etrailer’s site. I found what I wanted in no time. When I went to check out it said I should have the unit it 3 days. Which would be Friday. I needed to pick up my Camper on Monday. I called because I wanted to be sure it would deliver on Friday. They assured me I would have it Friday. I placed my order at 11am and by 3 pm I had an email saying the Hitch had shipped. To my surprise it arrived on Thursday. I’m very mechanically inclined and it took me about 2 hours to put the Hitch in my 2017 Ram 2500 with the in bed puck system. I did have to remove my bed liner which I will put back in at a later date. The installation went pretty smooth. I found it helpful to watch the videos on the installation. I picked up my camper on Monday and drove 100 miles home. So far so good. It’s going on 600 mile journey over the Memorial Day Weekend. I was very impressed with the customer service when I called and the very quick free shipping. Great Job etrailer.
I love the way it sits and fits in my truck. The instructions and installation were very clear and easy to follow and assemble. And there is still room to have my tool box’s and a chain between the 5th wheel and my tailgate. My tank cover fits perfectly over the top and my support bars don’t touch the 5th wheel either.
I am very happy with this 5th wheel.It works just like all the descriptions said it would. It will make pulling our camper a breeze.
I would recommend this hitch very highly. And will be recommending all my friends to this company for all future hitches.
Great products, excellent price, speedy (3 day) delivery and easy step by step installation instructions for my sliding fifth wheel hitch for my 2016 Ram 2500 short bed truck w/ factory tow prep package. I would highly recommend any of these products as well as the excellent customer service at etrailer.com
Easy to assemble and lined up perfect to the ram factory puck system. I don’t have experience with any other fifth wheel hitch but the only down side I see to this is that the system is extremely heavy.
The product arrived 1 day earlier than promised. The instructions were decent, they could of been more inclusive of the different setups, the hitch and sliders didn’t reference how to interface with the Ram puck base. The rubber gaskets for the slider base didn’t fit with the Ram base due to their thickness. You need a 100lbs torque wrench(I rented one from Orielys). All the parts were present. The bad may not of been etrailers fault, but the boxes arrived like they were dropped out of an airplane. Amazingly, nothing was damaged.
When joined with sliding fifth wheel hitch, works like a charm. Easy in and out of bed with chain hoist
Like most customers the box was in really bad shape when it arrived. Everything was still together and not damaged. Received 2 of 3 boxes, contacted customer service since I needed the rail system for the rest of the assembly to mount on and they promised the rails would arrive the next day. I'm trusting they will get here. The Curt fifth wheel slider hitch is built substantially well and is impressive, cannot wait to hook up!
Dennis - 08/19/2021Purchased and installed adapter rails for my Curt 5th wheel hitch. These adapter rails are rated for 24,000 lbs., and are "beefy". I could not be more pleased with the ease of installation and overall heavy duty construction of these adapter rails.
Great 5th wheel had a year with multiple trips with no problems. Would recommend to anyone.
Product is well built however the packaging was horrible. Most of the box was open. Looks like all parts present.
Looks great, Easy installation, Good quality.
I had a problem with ups losing one part and etrailer sent out another one. All the staff that I spoke with was great.
Too tall!! Had to replace with a lower hitch even after moving the pin box all the way up. Hard to slide, tends to bind if not almost perfectly straight.
This mount is a perfect fit for the Ram factory installed "puck" system 5th wheel hitch in-bed mount. It drops right into the factory in-bed holes and locks in with a 1/4 turn of the handles. I coupled this with the Curt Q20 sliding hitch for the short-bed Ram truck, fits and works perfectly. etrailer's pricing was a welcome significant-amount less expensive than other online vendors' sites I researched for the exact same item. The entire assembly with the hitch is heavy, as expected, around 200+lbs. I installed a light-duty (220lb single line/440lb double line) overhead electric hoist in the garage with a kingpin attachment for lifting this out when an empty bed is needed for hauling something other than the RV.
Great hitch but even better service and shipping. Thanks for getting this to me in such a short time frame!
Good choice for the Q20 hitch in my 22 Ram!
The adapter rails fit the RAM factory puck system perfectly. 2020 2500 tradesman crew cab 4x4
With fifth wheel prep package.
I was on a very tight time line since I had to replace my tow vehicle due to unresolved mechanical issues a few days prior to leaving for a 3 month RV trip. Fortunately the Rails for my new tow vehicle arrived one day earlier then was projected (less then 3 days from order date). It was a perfect fit with my Curt 5th Wheel Hitch. Thank you for the great customer service and quick delivery!
Great company, shipper lost part and they made it right ASAP
On time shipping and delivery rated 4 stars for the fact of package was damaged and torn
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